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In the report by the Texas Department of State Health Services, Assessment of the Occurrence of Cancer Houston, Texas 2000–2016, [1] it was found that when comparing the cancer analysis of the Fifth Ward to other areas within Texas and Houston, several cancers were statistically greater than what would be expected in an uncontaminated area.
The Harris Health System, previously the Harris County Hospital District (HCHD), is a governmental entity with taxing authority that owns and operates three hospitals and numerous clinics throughout Harris County, Texas, United States, including the city of Houston.
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
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The City of Houston Health Department operates two clinics in the Northside: Nueva Casa de Amigos ("New House of Friends"), [9] and Northside. [10] The Houston Housing Authority (HHA) operates the following public housing complexes in Northside: Fulton Village, [11] Heatherbrook Apartments, [12] Irvinton Village, [13] and Oxford Place. [14]
In 2010 the city began to establish a community garden at the Sunnyside center to provide area residents with vegetables and other nutritious foods. [26] During the 1997 Mayor of Houston election, 99% of Sunnyside voters voted for Lee P. Brown. [46] The Houston Health Department operates the Sunnyside Health Center in Sunnyside. [47]
The Houston Health Department said it would distribute 400 free portable air conditioners to area seniors, people with disabilities and caregivers of disabled children to contend with the heat.
Spring Branch is a district in west-northwest Harris County, Texas, United States, roughly bordered by Tanner Road and Hempstead Road to the north, Beltway 8 to the west, Interstate 10 to the south, and the 610 Loop to the east; it is almost entirely within the city of Houston. [4]